{"id":331504,"date":"2010-02-17T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-1356729942478240703"},"modified":"2010-02-17T09:10:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:10:03","slug":"evolution-of-entitlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331504","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of Entitlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S3to8l2XQKI\/AAAAAAAAFG0\/hpkZeG-EgPA\/s1600-h\/entitlement.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S3to8l2XQKI\/AAAAAAAAFG0\/hpkZeG-EgPA\/s320\/entitlement.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439056365141573794\" \/><\/a>More and more I have been noticing friends and colleagues (that lean and vote right) claiming &#8216;things aren&#8217;t fair&#8217; and &#8216;that shouldn&#8217;t be allowed.&#8217; It&#8217;s disturbing how the MSM&#8217;s talking points seep into the psyche of the unsuspecting. Bonuses and profits&#8230;loopholes and salaries all vilified and in dire need of regulation. Little by little convincing the American people that we can&#8217;t exist without government intervention. That we&#8217;re too small and insignificant to look after our own interests. That we&#8217;re just too dumb to see the big picture. And it&#8217;s working! My friends are lamenting the giant bonuses for bankers and begrudging the profits of insurance companies. They&#8217;re primed to let Big Brother in the door and I&#8217;m not sure they even realize it. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where it starts. And this is where it ends&#8230;In Sweden with 60% or more of your pay going right to the government or in the UK where your tax dollars could be paying for this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;A single mother-of-six is getting more than \u00a380,000 [$125,000] a year from the taxpayer to live in a \u00a32million mansion in an exclusive London suburb.<\/p>\n<p>Essma Marjam, 34, is given almost<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"> \u00a37,000 a month in housing benefits<\/span> to pay the rent on the five-bedroom villa just yards from Sir Paul McCartney&#8217;s house and Lord&#8217;s cricket ground.  <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">She also receives an estimated \u00a315,000 a year in other payouts, such as child benefit, to help look after her children, aged from five months to 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The four-storey house in Maida Vale has five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a double living room&#8230; two large flat-screen televisions.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Marjam said: &#8216;I moved here at the beginning of the month <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">as I&#8217;m entitled to a five-bedroom house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was in a three-bedroom council house but I needed a bigger place once my new baby came along. So the council agreed to pay the \u00a31,600 a week to a private landlord as they didn&#8217;t have any houses big enough&#8230;&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com\/2010\/02\/15\/entitled-to-a-five-bedroom-house\/#ixzz0flFM6viS\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Social programs are THE slippery slope. Full stop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-1356729942478240703?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more I have been noticing friends and colleagues (that lean and vote right) claiming &#8216;things aren&#8217;t fair&#8217; and &#8216;that shouldn&#8217;t be allowed.&#8217; It&#8217;s disturbing how the MSM&#8217;s talking points seep into the psyche of the unsuspecting. Bonuses and profits&#8230;loopholes and salaries all vilified and in dire need of regulation. Little by little convincing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}